WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Oct. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — BBT IHC International Ltd., a subsidiary of BBT Corporation (NYSE: BBT), announced today it has reached an agreement to enter into a partnership with Willis Group Holdings (NYSE: WSH), the global risk advisor, re/insurance…

Town Manager Marcy Onieal said planning for the event has been a major undertaking for the town staff, but she hopes the end result will be well worth the work. “We’ve never had an event this large where 1,100 people…

Officials are still calculating the total cost of the pontiff’s visit — but many Philadelphia suburbs have tallied up tens of thousands of dollars in expenses. Security and transit concerns put towns — particularly those with operating SEPTA stations —…

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – The 2016 presidential election is still more than a year away, but the campaign is in full swing and North Carolina will have two of the top candidates from each party in the state this week.…

By Matthew Burns, Mark Binker and Laura Leslie Raleigh, N.C. — House members upset with a late addition to a sex education bill that would pre-empt local ordinances on everything from minimum wage to requiring businesses to serve same-sex couples…

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Posted: Sunday, September 27, 2015 12:00 am Capitol Affairs: Hotel tax efforts could put programs at risk The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners may not have understood the risk they took when they asked their lawmakers in June to give…

LIGHTNING PHOTOS: Cross-state bicycle tour overnights here Riders reach the finish line of the Waynesville-to-Hendersonville leg on Sunday. By Bill Moss, Published: September 27, 2015 Neither rain nor a frosty morn nor downhill hairpin turns stayed more than a thousand…

Michael Sohn The Latest: Switzerland to ban sales of some VW group cars An activist of the environmental protection organization ‘Greenpeace’ holds a protest poster in front of a factory gate of the German car manufacturer Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany,…

Staff photo by Andrew Craft Fayetteville hotels The Value Place extended stay hotel on Rowan Street. Posted: Thursday, September 24, 2015 8:00 pm | Updated: 9:18 am, Fri Sep 25, 2015. NC House rejects Cumberland County’s hotel tax change By…